Mower.



No. 673,723. Patented May 7, mm. J. D. MURRAY &. C. A. PENNY.

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UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

JOHN D. MURRAY, OF RIFLE, AND CHARLIE A. PENNY, OF RAVEN, COLORADO.

MOWER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 673,723, dated May '7,1901.

Application filed November 14, 1900. berial No. 36,512. (No od l.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, JOHN D. MURRAY, of Rifle, and CHARLIE A. PENNY, ofRaven, in the county of Garfield and State of Colorado, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Mowers; and we do hereby declarethe following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

This invention has reference to that type of mowers employing asupplemental sickle working at practically right angles to the mainsickle.

The primary object of our improvement is to operate the supplementalsickle by means driven directly by the machinery of the mower and alsoto so locate the operating means that the same will serve to throw thealfalfa or other grain to the rear of the main sickle.

The invention will be hereinafter fully set forth, and particularlypointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows the general outline ofportions of a mower equipped with our improvement. Fig. 2 is arearelevation. Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view on line 3 3, Fig. 2.Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail. Fig. 5 is a cross-section on line as 11;,Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates the main horizontally-positionedsickle of a mower provided with the ordinary fingers and cutter, whichlatter may be operated after any preferred manner, but as it forms nopart of our invention need not be further described. On the outer end ofthis main sickle is a supplemental sickle 2, disposed and designed tocut at substantially right angles to the main sickle. It is shown asbeing composed of a finger-bar 3 and cutter 4, said bar being held inits proper position by a bracerod secured to the shoe or runner 5. The

raising and lowering of the main sickle.

knife 4 is connected by a pitman 6 to a wheel '7 on the end of a shaft8, having its bearings in boxes 9 on the main sickle-bar. This shaft isshown as being sectional, its approximately horizontal part beingarticulated by a balland-socket connection 10 to the complementary part11, which in turn is suitably connected to any wheel, as 12, directlyoperated by the mower mechanism. (Not shown.) This part 11 has a slidingsleeve 13 to allow of. the horizontal adjustment thereof in the In therotation of shaft 8 its upper surface moves toward the rear. Inconsequence grain falling upon the main sickle is thrown backward.

In the use of our improvement the upright sickle is positively operated,and the location of the operating-shaft on the main sickle aids verymaterially in preventing the cut grain from accumulating on the mainsickle.

We claim as our invention- 1. A mower having a main sickle, andasupplemental sickle at substantially right angles to the main sickle,and a revoluble shaft carried by the latter for directly operating saidsupplemental sickle independently of the reciprocation of the mainsickle, substantially as set forth.

.the supplemental sickle at one end thereof,

a shaft mounted on the main sickle, a wheel on one end of said shaft, apitman connecting said supplemental sickle to said wheel, operatingmechanism, and means connecting the other end of said shaft to saidmechanism, substantially as set forth.

4:. The combination with the main sickle, of

the supplemental sickle at one end thereof, a specification in thepresence of two subscrib= shaft mounted on the main sickle, a Wheel oning Witnesses.

one end of said shaft, a pitman connecting JOHN D. MURRAY. saidsupplemental sickle to said wheel, oper- CHARLIE A. PENNY.

5 ating mechanism, and a connection between Witnesses to signature ofJohn D. Murray:

said shaft and operating mechanism, said con- THEO. HATOPP, nectionhaving a sliding sleeve to allow of its J. A. MACRAE. longitudinaladjustment, substantially as set Witnesses to signature of Charlie A.Penny: forth. J. H. THURSTON,

10 In testimony whereof We have signed this GEO. MITCHELL.

